Using Sensory Images: Restaurant Reviews
Next, choose a partner and take turns reading your descriptions aloud. Then, debrief together: Next, read a winning student restaurant review from our 2018 contest, chosen here for its vivid descriptive language and inventive use of metaphors. The Sichuan fish is electric. Filleted tilapia simmers under a blistery rain of peppers. Its spice-bombed fragrance, lightened…
Making an Argument Via Descriptive Detail: Music Reviews
Now read something written by a student. In her 2018 winning entry, Isabella Levine reviews “Anthem of the Peaceful Army,” the debut album by the rock band Greta Van Fleet. Here’s the sentence at the end of the first paragraph that best captures her opinion of the album: The seeds of a potential rock revival…
Do You Read Reviews?
Find all our Student Opinion questions here. Note: This question, like three others we’re asking this week, are inspired by our Review Unit and related contest, in which we invite teenagers to write their own takes on a work from any of the 13 categories of creative expression that The Times reviews. If you are…
